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VESA prompts monitor dumping in bargain basement frenzy
News Monitor manufacturers are desperately dumping 14-inch stock in the UK to clear massive inventories of products that in two months are not going to be VESA standard. VESA, which stands for the Video Electronics Standards Association has issued a new...
[May 23, 1997, 15:15]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 1
Blog Comment Try booting the installer with the kernel parameter 'vesa'. That should force it to use the 'vesa' driver both during install and for the installed system. Then you could build an openchrome snapshot, or just stick with vesa.
[January 31, 2009, 6:39]
New digital display standard moves closer
News The Video Electronics Standards Association, or VESA, is currently reviewing a proposal for a newly developed standard that aims to enable more colors, higher resolutions and higher refresh rates, as well as simplify the way computers connect to...
[August 19, 2005, 11:00]
HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Comment I don't recall that I was ever able to get the display resolution exactly right when using the vesa driver on openSuSE, though. It might interest you to know that openSuSE 11.1 uses the same X server version as Ubuntu 8.10, which means that you can...
[March 11, 2009, 7:29]
Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog The Ubuntu WIki indicates that you should be able to install 8.10 on the Mini-Note by forcing it to use the vesa graphic driver, but nothing I tried, and I mean absolutely nothing, would work. A few cycles of that convinced me that absolutely none...
[February 15, 2009, 16:00]
Dream Linux 3.5 - Results and Summary
Blog It installed smoothly, got the display resolution exactly right on both the LiveCD and after installation, and although it was using the vesa driver rather than the openchrome driver, everything was working ok.
[March 9, 2009, 9:50]
HP t5730w Thin Client review
Reviews The device has industry-standard VESA mounting interfaces for Flat Displays (FDs), and many users will probably buy the optional quick-release VESA mounting bracket and fix the t5730w to the back of their flat-screen monitor.
[September 3, 2009, 16:19]
Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment The advice that is all over the Internet (i.e.force the vesa driver) worked for me when I first got the HP mininote 2133 and again after the main board was replaced the first time. When I got it back this past week, after the main board was...
[March 2, 2009, 10:45]
DOSBox
Downloads It has partial protected mode emulation, a subset of VESA 1.2 functionality (800x600x8) via S3 Trio emulation, and 'internal modem' support via the SDL_net framework. This is a rather trivial port of DOSBox to MacOS X.
[May 28, 2009, 14:56]
Details emerge of desktop Asus Eee PC
News The product will have a "Vesa mount" — the type of fitting used on flat-panel LCD or plasma displays — so it can be fitted onto the back of certain monitors. Asus has confirmed the existence of the Eee Box, a desktop version of the popular Eee PC...
[May 27, 2008, 17:24]
VectorLinux 6.0 Released
Blog On the 2133 it defaulted to the vesa display driver at 1024x768 resolution, but I was able to copy over the openchrome driver from Mandriva 2009.0, and got it working at 1280x768. VectorLinux made their 6.0 final release over the weekend.
[February 22, 2009, 12:43]
HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Comment I did leave it running on the vesa drivers but that still allowed me to watch BBC iPlayer and the like which is all I really wanted, the main thing I use it for is connecting to work via Citrix which is thankfully easy to get up and running under...
[March 11, 2009, 11:04]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 1
Blog Comment On Mandriva, you should be able to ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a console, then you can log in as root and change to the 'vesa' driver with drakx11. The issue with graphics is that the latest stable release of openchrome doesn't actually work properly...
[February 2, 2009, 7:46]
Eee Box to ship in September
Blog This little 1kg system can be desk-mounted on a stand, or VESA-mounted to the back of a flat-panel monitor. Having already used the 'Eee PC' name for its successful and rapidly expanding range of mini- (and increasingly not-so-mini — see the latest...
[July 30, 2008, 11:13]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 1
Blog Comment The display is obviously the biggest problem, and even the ones which work aren't really "getting it right" in the sense of using the VIA UniChrome driver; openSuSE uses the FrameBuffer (fbdev) driver, and MEPIS uses the VESA driver.
[January 28, 2009, 8:14]
Sony fills out Multiscan screen line
News All the screens support Display Data Channel (DDC) 2AB, the VESA standard for host-to-screen status information. The Multiscan 100sf (£329 + VAT) 15-inch has a horizontal scan range of between 30 and 70kHz and complies with the TCO '92 ergonomic...
[February 6, 1997, 9:54]
LG announces thin-client monitor range
News NComputing already sells cheap thin clients that can be mounted on the back of Vesa-compliant monitors — the Smartvine series simply builds that functionality into the monitor itself. LG and the thin-client company NComputing are to bring out a...
[June 19, 2009, 16:04]
Inveneo Computing Station review
Reviews A metal sleeve bolted to the VESA mounting points on the back of the 14.1in.monitor secures the metal-cased system unit. The Inveneo Computing Station is a complete mini-desktop computer, with the system unit mounted on the back of a 14.1in.
[February 19, 2008, 11:41]
Five years ago: Samsung screens monitors for ease of use
News The monitors support the VESA 85Hz refresh rate for high resolutions and flicker-free display. First published 5 February, 1997 Comprising seven models, the latest range comes in 15-inch, 17-inch and 21-inch flavours and marks a drive by the...
[February 5, 2002, 6:01]
Samsung SyncMaster 173P review
Reviews Samsung also includes a VESA bracket for wall-mounting -- an extra that's usually sold separately. Some LCDs have limited viewing angles, a fact that makes the picture hard to see from the sides or from above or below.
[April 16, 2004, 11:25]
